Lyrics of Life

It was afternoon the sky dressed as spring. One moment more and it would have conducted the dance of death in the city. It was afternoon. In...

A prisoner condemned to life. Chains round his ankles, handcuffs, in a narrow jail cell. He dreams like horsemen, the horses and the wind. H...

After Halabja* suffocated, I wrote a long complaint to God Before everyone, I read it to a tree. The tree cried. From one side, a bird, a po...

The sorrow and suffering of Kurdish girls cannot be told in a hundred stories From the ranks of humanity, they have been driven away lower t...

The happy day of Kurdish youth is still hidden by a heavy black cloud until the face of the city´s daughter is hidden from the eyes Your vei...

Four children a Turk, a Persian an Arab and a Kurd were collectively drawing the picture of a man. The first drew his head The second drew h...

I challenge poverty, privation, pain.  I resist times of oppression with strength. I have courage. I do not love angel eyes, skin white as m...

Adored land, my country, a love that I had lost.. if you had been remote  in an inaccessible sky or at a summit of the world I would have ...

If You are One And Your teachings are one, Why did You engrave our infancy in the tablets of the Torah, And ornament our youth with the Gosp...

Remember the toddler lying face down on the sand, and the waves gently receding from his body as if a forgotten dream? My poem will not turn...

He is a poor pawn. He always jumps to the next square. He doesn’t turn left or right and doesn’t look back. He is moved by a foolish que...

God save America, My home, sweet home! The French general who raised his tricolor over Nuqrat al-Salman where I was a prisoner thirty ye...

A dictator, hiding behind a nihilist's mask, has killed and killed and killed, pillaged and wasted, but is afraid, he claims, to kil...

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing, True description from the real taste. The one who tastes,...

O my Lord, if I worship you from fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I worship you from hope of Paradise, bar me from its gates. But i...